Met Accused of Bugging MP Khan

London’s Metropolitan Police have been accused of bugging Sadiq Khan, Labour MP for Tooting during visits to a constituent in Woodhill Prison.

According to today’s Sunday Times officers from Scotland Yard’s anti-terrorist recorded conversations between Mr Khan and Babar Ahmad on two occasions in 2005 and 2006.

Justice Secretary Jack Straw, who has ordered am immediate investigations, said it was “completely unacceptable for an interview to be conducted by a MP on a constituent matter or in any other issue to be recorded.”

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The alleged bugging of Sadiq Khan is only to be expected if he is talking to a terrorist suspect and authority exists to surveill that suspect. The implication is obvious, anyone the suspects meets/talks to will be recorded for posterity either by sound or vision or both. This is an unfortunate situation but one which those charged with our safety have at their disposal under the power of the law of the land which complies with international protocls. The only thing that makes an MP inviolable in this regard is MPs view of their own jumped up importance as holders of sacrosanct offices of State (as they see it). Why should the rest of the public be subject to surveillance by every man and his dog from central and local government departments and MPs be made an exception. At a time when the affairs of various MPS are hitting the headlines for being totally self interested and greedy; and the general reputation of politicians is in tatters thanks to such phenomenon as their being able to demand payment for expenses up to £250 without evidence, who gives a big rats _ _ _ _ if one of them is bugged and Harold Wilson said it would never happen. Tough …..and…David davis is in very good company if he has written to 10, Downing Street and never had a reply. I got news for him, happens all the time to the rest of us. We’re used to it.